An acquired taste.

Part I
Things that are online-related should stay online:

I haven’t been able to use Twitter for a while. Apparently my aggressive Java-script policy was preventing a second site called akamaihd from loading portions of the twitter app into my browser. I forget exactly when this happened first but I was basically prevented from using the web version. The problem from my end seemed to be that the need to allow scripts for this second site didn’t show up until I managed to (after several attempts at several times) load the profile page and see what I needed to do. Akamaihd didn’t show up on the main twitter page or the login page I had bookmarked.

I didn’t especially miss it, though I am more likely to use it now.

This calamity affected exactly 0 people at the time of its occurrence though I’m not sure if I should be worried that Twitter has off-loaded some of their work?

Part II

Having newly discovered Twitter I threw the name Fela Kuti into the people search, knowing full well that the man has been dead for over a decade. It came up with an official @felakuti account that lead me to an official website. This discovery led me to two basic dilemmas:

1. I know this man to be dead. There is no chance there will ever be a tweet from him. Who exactly am I following?

2. I don’t follow a lot of people on there (or anywhere) but none of them follow the Ghost either. This in and of itself is not surprising, what is surprising is the realization that I have not shared my Fela addiction with anyone outside of my wife and a failed attempt at getting some younger friends (like 6 months old) hooked by showing them the Music Is The Weapon DVD that came with a greatest hits CD set. I have all the albums on CD, I made a big deal out of catching them all, I listen to them most of the time and I dance and sing to them by myself, yet I don’t have any friends to enjoy the music with. I keep hoping someone will be affected by the music alone but because that keeps failing to happen I feel the need to enter into some sort of explanation with varying degrees of success. My wife appreciates it but it’s definitely not her favorite. Should I seek out friends that have the same obsession, or possibly, should I make only friends with this interest as a criteria for friendship?